Today I’m showing you a birthday present for my brother for his 23 birthday! Bart congratulations! He oftenly orders games en dvd’s at Bol.com, and at the AH (store) and the Primera (store) they sell gift cards (that’s new in Holland) , and also for Bol.com! Tim Holtz gives this gift cards as Christmas presents, using the Gingerbread Man Die with movers and shapers. I don’t own that Die, but I found a sewing pattern of a Gingerbread Man on the internet, enlarged it, and cut it out of chipboard with scissors. I used the MME lost and found PP, and used alcohol ink on a sheet creating the cap. Wobbly eyes, a bottlecap, and a bingo piece, string, ribbon, and some letters. I decided to make a Sleepyhead because my brother and I we both love to sleep longer on a day off!

Last week I told you all about Martijn, and ladies I want to thank you all for your lovely messages! Unfortunately yesterday the results came in, and he has metastases in his lymph nodes. This kind of news is never easy, but in his case, being diagnosed with lymph gland cancer at the age of 33 is very difficult! Tonight he will hear what kind of treatment they are planning for him. He hasn’t beaten this disease yet, but has a positive attitude, and he’s a fighter ! And without those two things you will always lose this battle, so Druif (nickname): keep the spirit up!

It’s time for the last sketch of 2011! Time flies! This challenge is made by Cora! She has created a sketch for us, and as you all know you’re free to create whatever you want with it! It doesn’t have to be a card, if you want to make a layout or something else that’s all right too! The designteam has created beautiful examples, so ladies take a look at the CFY blog it’s really worth it!

It’s almost wintertime and that means that we have a lot of male birthdays the next couple of weeks! It’s more difficult to create a birthday card for a man, but I’m very happy with my result for this challenge! It also was a difficult card to photograph, because of the shimmer and shine. The flags are more white, the contrast between the background and the embellishments is a lot bigger in reality.

Today I got mail from Berdien! She send me this beautiful Christmas card she made for challenge #37! And there were al lot of goodies in the envelop too: PP from MME lost and found collection, Tim Holtz PP, die cuts from MD, doilies, and lots of Tim Holtz embellishments! Game spinners, gears, a frame, key, a hole set of Swivel Clamps (!!!), 3 wooden spools and eyelets! Thanks Berdien! This was way too much, but so very sweet of you!

Tonight Jacco has a Christmas party from work, so the chickies had time to scrap! I was trying to decide what I was going to create tonight, when a saw these super cute Christmas trees at Tim Holtz his blog! I don’t have any Christmas decorations on my scraproom yet, and this tree will look very cute on my desk, without it taking a lot of space! Want to make the holiday rosette tree yourself? You can find the how to on Tim Holtz his blog!

Instead of using a pencil I cut 2 bamboo skewers in half and glued them together. Because I didn’t have a wooden spool, I used a small whiskey packaging (round tube) and cut of the bottom. I put some self-hardening clay inside, put the tree in it and finished it with some moss.

This weeks challenge is made by Marjan! And she came up with a lovely idea! A bingocard! How does it work: choose 1 line and those 3 items have to be included in to your card, layout or whatever you want to make! But you also can choose to use the entire bingocard! Have a lot of scrap fun!

A card for my best friend Martijn. It began months a go with an “innocent mold” it turned out to be a melanoma. They removed it, and then the tissue next to it turned out to be cancer as well…. He had surgery yesterday, the removed the gatekeeper gland (I hope that’s correct English….) and now we have to wait for the results. Because he is staying so positive I made him this Merci card (Merci = chocolate), to stimulate him to continue being positive! Druiffie (nickname) You can beat this!!! Everything is going to be all right! Ladies I really would like if you leave a comment, because he is following/reading this blog!

The card measures closed up 14cm by 20cm, opened up is it almost 55cm long, so it’s a big card. The reason for this size is it had to fit as many Merci bars (chocolate bars) as possible, because Druif (nickname) loves chocolate! What’s funny to know is this card was inspired with a sketch Marjan made earlier for CFY, sketch #21!

Ladies thank you for all the lovely comments! I certainly could use the support the last couple of days! Today I going to work with my girls (youthcenter) again, and my buddy Martijn is going in to surgery this afternoon… Tomorrow more about that, because then it’s time for a new challenge at CFY and hopefully I know a little bit more about Martijn’s condition!

Of course the tags are hanging at my cabinet, and I’m going to keep them for inspiration, I learnt so much techniques the last 12 days and I don’t want to forget them! But first there is more important stuff to do, like cleaning up my scraproom! I haven’t cleaned or organized it the last 3 days… and it looks like a bomb went of there! LOL! And I still need to make some curtains and I need to renovate a cabinet there! Lots of work to do!

Jacco (husband) was so sweet to make a compilation of the 12 tags for me! Enjoy!

The 12 tags were so much fun! I had a really great time, not just because I love making the tags, but also with Mario Rossi’s BTS on facebook and Twitter! I’m glad I decided to leave a side my own scrapbook style, and just trying to create was Tim had made up. That’s why I learned so much from it! Can’t wait till next year!

Did you all see that amazingly stunning technique with the Meltingpot?? I saw the technique with schrimpy dinky in UTEE on Tim Holtz’s DVD, but to see it with Alterations!!! So awesome! Today I tried to figured out how to get the same effect, but the Meltingpot is definitely on my wishlist!

Today I had a full schedule. The plan was to do a few quick things… of course it took a lot more time! So at the end of the day, being very tired, I didn’t feel like making a tag! But I got as far as the 9th tag, so I’m not going to quit now! Whahaha!

It’s already time for tag 9, time flies! On the 9th tag Tim used a new embossing technique and the die cut candlelight fright! Because I don’t own this die, I made a drawing and cut it out of chipboard with a pair of scissors!

1. De kandelaar na tekenen, zodat er een mal ontstaat, overnemen op chipboard.Drawing the chandelier on paper, making a mold of it, putting it on chipboard.

The die cuts (weathered clock and the sprockets gears ) are painted with a metallic acrylic paint. Then embossed with gold embossingpowder.

2. Tekst stempelen. Op deze stempel staat de tekst achter elkaar. En ik wil de tekst onder elkaar stempelen. Dus ik leg een briefje over het woord wat ik niet wil stempelen. Dan de inkt op het woord wat ik wel wil stempelen. Het briefje voorkomt dat er per ongeluk toch inkt op het andere woord komt. Stempel de tekst. Maak de stempel schoon!!! En doe het precies andersom met het andere woord!Stamping the words Christmas Wishes. On this stamp the words are standing next to each other. And I want to stamp them among each other. Put a note on top of the word you don’t want to stamp. Thanks to the note the other word has no ink on it. Stamp on paper. Clean your stamp!!! And now you do the same steps with the other word.

Distress the tag with the seasonal distress inks. I added some Peeled Paint for extra color.

5. Ik vond de achtergrond wat saai omdat ik niet alle stempels heb, dus ik heb de tag geembost met de texture fade Steampunk.I found my background was a little bit boring, because I don’t have all the stamps that Tim used, so I embossed the tag with the texture fade Steampunk.

Tim Holtz has made a beautiful tag again! Today he has chosen for Kraft Glassine Paper with Perfect Pearls en Alcohol Ink. I don’t have these 3 products, accept for alcohol ink but not in the right color. I have experimented earlier with baking paper to see if I could get the same effect… and today I (almost) did! Again I have taken pictures for you!

3. De holly branch blaadjes nagetekend, malletjes van geknipt, en overgenomen op bakpapier. De Branch Tree mal had ik wel, deze is geverft, geglimmermist en die verknipt zodat ik takjes had. I have drawn the holly branch leaves with a pencil on to white paper and made a template of them. Then I copied the template on to baking paper. I did had the Branch Tree die, so I painted the tree, used glimmermist on it and cut it in to pieces so I had smaller branches.

Did you all finish them or do you need to create some more? To be honest, the designteam members hadn’t finished theirs yet! So that’s why we have one more Christmas card sketch! But when you’ve already managed to finish yours.. then we dare you to make a non-Christmas card with this sketch!

Today I had to go to the Girls (youth center), and we went on with our felt project! The water and soap causes a lot of mess whahahaha! The felted phone skins/cases (sorry don’t know if that’s correct)are a success, we had a really good time! So time was short, but I managed to get my tag ready on time!

It’s monday and the party (the weekend) is over! So back to the normal daily things and obligations, but I’ve managed to make tag 5! All of the pictures were taken with flash light, that’s a pity but that can not spoil the fun! It’s not possible anymore to follow Mario with his BTS (I need to get some sleep at night), but the nice thing about internet is, that you always can read it later on!

I don’t have reflection stamps, but I knew there was another trick, to turn a regular stamp into a reversed stamp. I started searching on youtube between the Tim Holtz movies, but couldn’t find it! Until Jacco (my husband) came with the bright idea that I’ve seen it on the Tim Holtz Dvd. Yes, I probably did! I would have love to show you the technique, but I have to honor the copyrights. Short explanation of the technique? You need a big rubber stamp with a flat surface area. Stamp with another rubber stamp and archival ink on to the flat surface. Then use that stamp to stamp your images with. Now your stamp is backwards! But I didn’t such a big stamp so I started experimenting, with foam, leather, plastic, sheets even my cutting mat, but nothing did the trick! So I haven’t been able to come up with a alternative technique!

First I want to start with thanking you all for your support and sweet messages! It motivates me a lot! I’m starting to get tired, because I’m trying to follow Mario on Twitter with BTS (behind the scene), and because of the time difference this starts at 01.00 a.m. (at night, local time)! He shows us pictures of what Tim is creating….. so much fun! The nights are short, the days are long….But it’s worth it and it’s so nice being a part of it! I promised myself last year I would join Tim with his 12 tags of Christmas, and I find it amazing!

Tim has made a tag with his favorite technique: the custom stamp pad technique! I find this techniek amazing, not just because you can preserve this stamppad for a long time, but I love the fact that the colors of the ink don’t blend in to each other! With a normal stamppad you’re not able to create this effect in a nice way. I didn’t have cut n' dry felt, I only have 1 reinker color Tea Die, so I made something else!